Flora Lum

Affiliation

American Academy of Ophthalmology

Biography

Dr. Lum is the Vice President of Quality and Data Science for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the Executive Director of the H. Dunbar Hoskins MD Center for Quality Eye Care, the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. She has overseen the Academy’s IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight) since its initiation, which has collected over 397 million patient visits on over 70 million patients as of October 1 2021, and reported on quality measures for over 10,000 NPI/TIN combinations since 2017. She served as co-Principal Investigator for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)- funded grant, RiGOR, Registry in Glaucoma Outcomes Research, A Prospective Observational Study Comparing the Effectiveness of Treatment Strategies for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma from 2011-2013. She also served as consultant for an Intraocular Lens Registry funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She oversees the quality of care and evidence-based activities of the Hoskins Center, including Preferred Practice Patterns, Ophthalmic Technology Assessments, Medicare data claims analyses, and the creation, stewardship and revision of performance measures which are incorporated into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System. She has directed the Academy’s health information technology activities, including development of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards, Systematized Nomenclature for Medicine (SNOMED) terminology, and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Eye Care testing and demonstrations as well as development of criteria for ophthalmology-specific electronic health records.